Steinberg Nuendo 3 Working With MIDI Manual

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Fixed Lengths
This function is only available from within the MIDI editors.
This function resizes all selected notes to the length set with the 
Length Quantize pop-up menu on the MIDI editor toolbar.
Delete Doubles
This function removes double notes, i.e. notes of the same pitch on 
the exact same position. Double notes can occur when recording in 
Cycle mode, after Quantizing, etc.
This function always affects whole MIDI parts.
Delete Controllers
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Delete Notes
Allows you to delete very short or weak notes. This is useful for auto-
matically removing unwanted “ghost notes” after recording. Selecting 
“Delete Notes...” opens a dialog in which you set up the criteria for the 
function:
The parameters have the following functionality:
Minimum Length
When the Minimum Length checkbox is activated, the note length is 
taken into account, allowing you to remove short notes. You can either 
specify the minimum...

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Minimum Velocity
When the Minimum Velocity checkbox is activated, the velocity of 
notes is taken into account, allowing you to remove weak notes. You 
specify the minimum velocity (for notes to be kept) in the value display.
Remove when under
This setting is only available when both Minimum Length and Minimum 
Velocity is activated. By clicking the value display, you select whether 
both length and velocity criteria must be met for notes to be deleted, 
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Delete Overlaps (poly)
This function shortens notes when required, so that no note begins 
before another ends. This happens regardless of which pitch the 
notes have.
Velocity
This function opens a dialog that allows you to manipulate the velocity 
of notes in various ways.
To apply the function, select one of the three processing types from 
the Type pop-up, adjust the settings and click OK (to close the dialog 
without applying, click Cancel).
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•To compress (“even out” velocity differences), use ratio values below 
100%.
After compression, you would probably want to add a velocity amount (with the Add/
Subtract function) to maintain the average velocity level. 
•To expand (create greater difference in velocity), use ratio values 
above 100%.
Before you expand, you may want to adjust the velocity with the Add/Subtract function, 
so that the average velocity is somewhere in the middle of the range. If...

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Dissolve Part
The Dissolve Part function on the MIDI menu has two separate uses:
•When you work with MIDI parts (on MIDI channel “Any”) containing 
events on different MIDI channels.
Dissolve Part separates the events according to MIDI channel.
•When you want to separate MIDI events according to pitch.
A typical example would be drum and percussion tracks, where each pitch usually cor-
responds to a separate drum sound.
Dissolving parts into separate channels...

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Now, for each MIDI channel used in the selected part(s), a new MIDI 
track is created and set to the corresponding MIDI channel. Each event 
is then copied into the part on the track with the corresponding MIDI 
channel. Finally, the original part(s) are muted.
An example:
Dissolving parts into separate pitches
The Dissolve Part function can also scan MIDI parts for events of dif-
ferent pitch, and distribute the events into new parts on new tracks, 
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The MIDI editors 

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About editing MIDI
There are several ways to edit MIDI in Nuendo. You can use the tools 
and functions in the Project window for large-scale editing, or use the 
functions on the MIDI menu to process MIDI parts in various ways 
(see page 58). For hands-on graphical editing of the contents of MIDI 
parts, you use the MIDI editors:
• The Key Editor is the default MIDI editor, presenting notes graphically in 
an intuitive piano roll-style grid.
The Key Editor also allows for...